label or html Label ASP net MVC 4

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Newbie to ASP net MVC 4 and trying to make sense of Razor   If I wanted to just display some text in my  cshtml page  can I use    lt label class  LabelCSSTop  gt Introduction lt  label gt    or should I use     Html Label  STW   htmlAttributes  new    class    LabelCSSTop       Not sure if one is preferred over the other or if either is okay   If the latter emits the label tag anyway  should I just stick to the former   Again  if I just wanted to display a text box  can I just do this    lt input id  txtName  type  text    gt     or should I do this      Html TextBox  txtName        Is there a situation when I should use the  Html over the regular html tag   Thanks in advance

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Depends on what your are doing   If you have SPA  Single-Page Application  the you can use    lt input id  txtName  type  text    gt    Otherwise using Html helpers is recommended  to get your controls bound with your model

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The helpers are there mainly to help you display labels  form inputs  etc for the strongly typed properties of your model   By using the helpers and Visual Studio Intellisense  you can greatly reduce the number of typos that you could make when generating a web page   With that said  you can continue to create your elements manually for both properties of your view model or items that you want to display that are not part of your view model

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In the case of your label snippet  it doesn t really matter  I would go for the simpler syntax  plain HTML    Most helper methods also don t allow you to surround another element  This can be a consideration when choosing to use not use one   Strongly-Typed Equivalents  However  it s worth noting that what you use the  Html  Element For lt T gt    methods that you gain important features  Note the  For  at the end of the method name   Example    Html TextBoxFor  o   gt  o FirstName     This will handle ID Name creation based on object hierarchy  which is critical for model binding   It will also add unobtrusive validation attributes  These methods take an Expression as an argument which refers to a property within the model  The metadata of this property is obtained by the MVC framework  and as such it  knows  more about the property than its string-argument counterpart   It also allows you to deal with UI code in a strongly-typed fashion  Visual Studio will highlight syntax errors  whereas it cannot do so with a string  Views can also be optionally compiled along with the solution  allowing for additional compile-time checks   Other Considerations  Occasionally a HTML helper method will also perform additional tasks which are useful  such as Html Checkbox and Html CheckboxFor which also create a hidden field to go along with the checkbox  Another example are the URL-related methods  such as for a hyperlink  which are route-aware    lt  -- bad -- gt   lt a href   foo bar 123  gt my link lt  a gt    lt  -- good -- gt   Html ActionLink   my link    foo    bar   new  id 123       lt  -- also fine  perhaps you want to wrap something with the anchor  -- gt   lt a href   Url Action   foo    bar   new  id 123      gt  lt span gt my link lt  span gt  lt  a gt    There is a slight performance benefit to using plain HTML versus code which must be executed whenever the view is rendered  although this should not be the deciding factor

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html label and  html textbox are use when you want bind it to your model in a easy way   which cannot be achieve by input etc  in one line

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When it comes to labels  I would say it s up to you what you prefer  Some examples when it can be useful with HTML helper tags are  for instance    When dealing with hyperlinks  since the HTML helper simplifies routing When you bind to your model  using  Html LabelFor   Html TextBoxFor  etc When you use the  Html EditorFor  as you can assign specific behavior och looks in a editor view

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If you want to just display some text in your  cshtml page  I do not recommend  Html Label and also not to use the html label as well  The  element represents a caption in a user interface  and you ll see that in the case of  Html Label  a for attribute is added  referring to the id of a  possibly non-existent  element  The value of this attribute is the value of the model field  in which non-alphanumerics are replaced by underscores  You should use  Html Display or  Html DisplayFor  possibly wrapped in some plain html elements line span or p

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